Word: sparkingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift helped spark the stock market to a sharp recovery from its long slide, pushed stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 480.63 by week's end, winning back 8.14 points and 36% of the previous week's loss. With the prospect of a further easing of credit if necessary, home builders expected at least to maintain their current rate of 1,100.000 houses annually v. 1.300,000 in 1955, perhaps even step up building a notch or two. Commerce Department figures for April also showed that while overall wholesale trade declined 3% in April...
Facing a battery of microphones, Sir Winston managed to summon up a spark of the old fire, audaciously talked of making Russia a partner with NATO. His audience was more startled than inflamed."A new question," said Churchill, "has been raised by the recent Russian repudiation of Stalin. If it is sincere, we have a new Russia to deal with, and I do not see myself why the new Russia should not join in the spirit of this solemn agreement. In a true Unity of Europe, Russia must have her part. I was glad to see that Poland was already...
Bergantino tripled in the sixth to spark a final three-run uprising which was enough to hold off a final Middie spurt. Bob Kessler started and got credit for the win, but was relieved in the sixth by Bob McGinnis, who did a creditable job in the last three frames...
...which man becomes a tiny pin in a gigantic mechanism. How can man be preserved? The answer seems so fragile, so hypothetical, that people understandably mock it. It is simply that we need an act of faith in man-faith in his profound worth and in the divine spark he contains." For faith is the bridge to the future. "This is Rome at the time of the barbarians. It is falling apart. But that doesn't mean the light won't shine eventually...
...Borg-Warner in a top echelon reshuffle at the auto-and aircraft-parts company. He succeeded his father, Roy C. Ingersoll, 71, who relinquished the presidency after six years, but remains as board chairman and chief executive officer. Young Ingersoll joined the company in 1939, during the war spark-plugged BW's amphibian-tank project, became an administrative vice president...